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Bayık: 1 September is the deadline

ANF – Brussels 31.07.2013  –  Cemil Bayık, co-chair of the KCK Executive Council said in an interview with Ronahi Tv that the September 1st is to be considered a deadline in the process towards peace initiated by Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.

Bayık said that the government should show its genuine will to reach a just and lasting peace by taking the steps require to enhance the process initiated by Öcalan. “If no steps are taken by the government – said the KCK representative – Kurds will understand that the message the government want to send is not one of peace but one of continuing the conflict and the destruction of the Kurdish people”. Bayık also stressed that the PKK will keep the eyes firmly on peace and how to reach it, but also added that for the process to really work “both sides need to take steps”.

The KCK executive also reminded that “Leader Apo has proposed the creation of 8 commissions. The creation of these commissions is a requirement to enhance the process of democratization together with the preparation of a draft legislation for a solution and direct and total involvment of parliament”.